St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-23
Had the fire in the Big Boston started

when you started up tOwnT'
Il am certain that the fire had not
started when we left the house."
what time was it when you started?"
"It was $50. We went back to
Twenty-eighth street, and then up the
Hastings & Dakota track to Cedar
avenue.'
"Why did you take the piece of bill
lizard cue with you?"
"FOr a cane"
"What did you do with it?"
81 dropped it over picket fence. 1t
was heavy and got tired OF carrying
it."
"How far had you carried it?''
"FOur or five blocks"
"Did you not hide it for the purpose
of having some one find it in order to
corroborate your testimony"
"NO. thought there might be trouble
and we might be arrested, and that 1T
would not be the thing to be found with
this stick"
"Why did you think there was going
to be trOuble?"
"Well, a car had been stopped?"
who had stopped it?''
81 don't know"
"What was dOne?"
"Well, Peter and Tim had pulled out
their revolvers and | had the stick, and
we stopped the carr
''WhO stopped it?''
II don't know. Well, the car stopped
been for me the car would have been
stopped"
"Don't you know that you have made
all this up? Why did you not have
your brothers hide their flashing re-
volvers?"
II did not have much of an idea that
there would be any trouble"
where did you get on the car that
you went up town on?''
''At Twenty-fourth street."
"Were the lights Oh the car burning?"
81 don't know"
"Where did you get out?"
"At Washington and Second ave
nues."
"Where did you g0?" 81
Il think there were ropes across the
track at the fire, and we went around
the block to Lally Bros SalOOn."
He then told about stopping at the
saloon for about an hour, but did not see
any one that he knew, and that Peter
and Tim, after drinking some beer, went
away, and in about an hour he saw them
passing by the door and went out
and joined them. They went down
to the fire at Second avenue,
then crossed over to Second street, went
down to Third avenue and then back to
Washington, where there was Bloom
ington avenue car, which they took and
went to the street car barns on Frank
lin avenue, where they got off.
Why did you get off there?" asked
Mr.. Erwin.
because it was the way home to go
down Franklin avenue"
"DO you know a man named Hart?"
81 do" IA perceptible vince.
''DO you know man named Steele,
from Omaha?'
"Yes. well; there were two men who
knew Peter and Tim in Omaha"
Ibid you not see these men at Lally's
saloon, and go away with them?"
Il did not. did not see any one l
knew. left the saloon with Tim and
Pete, and not with Hart and Steele. /
cannot tell the name of any person l
saw. We went around on Second street
instead of going down Washington
avenue, Second avenue south to Second
street, and then back on Third avenue.
We took car at Third avenue. There
might have been two or three cars, but
l don't remember of any. We did not
go down Washington avenue as far as
the depot. There was no one on the car
that | knew. We staid OH the hind plat
form and got off at Franklin avenue at
the car barns. There had been nothing
said yet about robbing car"
Did you see any more cars on Wash
ington avenue at Third avenue when
you went homer" (
II do not remember any," /:
What time was it?" !:
90 hOut 10 O'Clock - e. -
''When you got off at the car barns;
had there been anything said about
robbing carp"
mo" !.
In all this trip you never met man
that you knew either personally or by
name?''
No"
"Where did you 60 then?"
"Down to Franklin and Cedar. and
then up Cedar"
"Why did you not go down the rail-
road track from the corner of Cedar and
Franklin?"
because it was just as near to go out
Cedar to the Hastings & Dakota track
and then home"
Would not that route be five blocks
further?"
NO"
At this point the court adjourned.